Source code for rankeval.metrics.rbp

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# Authors: Cristina Muntean <cristina.muntean@isti.cnr.it>
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import numpy as np
from rankeval.metrics import Metric


[docs]class RBP(Metric): """ This class implements Ranked biased Precision (RBP) with several parameters. We implemented RBP as in: Alistair Moffat and Justin Zobel. 2008. Rank-biased precision for measurement of retrieval effectiveness. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 27, 1, Article 2 (December 2008), 27 pages. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1416950.1416952 RBP is an extension of P@k. User has certain chance to view each result. RBP = E(# viewed relevant results) / E(# viewed results) p is based on the user model perspective and allows simulating different types of users, e.g.: p = 0.95 for persistent user p = 0.8 for patient users p = 0.5 for impatient users p = 0 for i'm feeling lucky - P@1 The use of different values of p reflects different ways in which ranked lists can be used. Values close to 1.0 are indicative of highly persistent users, who scrutinize many answers before ceasing their search. For example, at p = 0.95, there is a roughly 60% likelihood that a user will enter a second page of 10 results, and a 35% chance that they will go to a third page. Such users obtain a relatively low per-document utility from a search unless a high number of relevant documents are encountered, scattered through a long prefix of the ranking. """ _threshold = 1 def __init__(self, name='RBP', cutoff=None, threshold=_threshold, p=0.5): """ This is the constructor of RBP, an object of type Metric, with the name RBP. The constructor also allows setting custom values in the following parameters. Parameters ---------- name: string RBP cutoff: int The top k results to be considered at per query level (e.g. 10) threshold: float This parameter considers relevant results all instances with labels different from 0, thus with a minimum label value of 1. It can be set to other values as well (e.g. 3), in the range of possible labels. p: float This parameter which simulates user type, and consequently the probability that a viewer actually inspects the document at rank k. """ super(RBP, self).__init__(name) self.cutoff = cutoff self.threshold = threshold self.p = p
[docs] def eval(self, dataset, y_pred): """ This method takes the RBP for each query and calculates the average RBP. Parameters ---------- dataset : Dataset Represents the Dataset object on which to apply RBP. y_pred : numpy 1d array of float Represents the predicted document scores for each instance in the dataset. Returns ------- avg_score: float The overall RBP score (averages over the detailed MAP scores). detailed_scores: numpy 1d array of floats The detailed RBP@k scores for each query, an array of length of the number of queries. """ return super(RBP, self).eval(dataset, y_pred)
[docs] def eval_per_query(self, y, y_pred): """ This method helps compute the RBP score per query. It is called by the eval function which averages and aggregates the scores for each query. Parameters ---------- y: numpy array Represents the labels of instances corresponding to one query in the dataset (ground truth). y_pred: numpy array. Represents the predicted document scores obtained during the model scoring phase for that query. Returns ------- rbp: float Represents the RBP score for one query. """ idx_y_pred_sorted = np.argsort(y_pred)[::-1] if self.cutoff is not None: idx_y_pred_sorted = idx_y_pred_sorted[:self.cutoff] discount = np.power(self.p, np.arange(len(idx_y_pred_sorted))) gain = y[idx_y_pred_sorted] >= self.threshold rbp = (1. - self.p) * (gain * discount).sum() return rbp
def __str__(self): s = self.name if self.cutoff is not None: s += "@{}".format(self.cutoff) if self.threshold != self._threshold: s += "[>{}]".format(self.threshold) return s